Should SteamOS have it's own separate section?

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Apologies, I'm new. I don't know how to arrange for a poll.

Given that Valve have actually released SteamOS, do you believe it's worthy of it's own forum subsection?

I only ask, as personally, I want SteamOS to succeed. If nothing more than to motivate Microsoft to cease ruining Windows. Hello, 24H2 anyone?

Whilst I understand it belongs in this section, personally, I believe having its own section would be great for the early adopters.

But that's just me, and I want to be rid of Windows if I can help it (My main rig is a Mac, I only use Windows to game on)

I may be in a minority, but I just thought it wise to ask before I waltz around thinking everyone agrees with me.
 
I’d say Linux Gaming would warrant its own section. I know SteamOS has done the most to make the idea of getting rid of Windows a reality, but there’s also Bazzite and other spins doing similar things to SteamOS.
 
randal said:
I’d say Linux Gaming would warrant its own section. I know SteamOS has done the most to make the idea of getting rid of Windows a reality, but there’s also Bazzite and other spins doing similar things to SteamOS.
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A Linux gaming section would be interesting. I only have experience with gaming on Linux using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so would be interested in alternatives.
 
Could be worth it, a Linux gaming section as @Cromulent suggested.

Will be switching to Bazzite before October, perhaps SteamOS maybe a better option for a purely gaming system.
 
adidan said:
Could be worth it, a Linux gaming section as @Cromulent suggested.

Will be switching to Bazzite before October, perhaps SteamOS maybe a better option for a purely gaming system.
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I'd argue Bazzite will still be the better option even for pure gaming, valve has been pretty slow with Mesa and kernel updates on Steam Deck and can't see that changing with SteamOS
 
Maybe create a Linux section and put a SteamOS thread there

I do think SteamOS is going to explode in popularity in time to come; game performance is a good chunk better than Windows

I'd be more than happy to have a dual boot drive and use SteamOS when I game, it's worth gaining another 10-20% higher performance than Windows 11
 
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Is new section necessary? I’ve had a SteamDeck for two and a half years, and have used Bazzite on a gaming PC for nearly a year. I don’t play a massive number of games but I’ve never had any issues playing what I do. Both SteamOS and Bazzite have console-ified PC gaming in a good way but boringly that means there’s not much to talk about would require a specific Linux/SteamOS gaming section.

On the flip side it might be useful for beginners setting up hardware and launchers such as Heroic
 
I'm surprised Reddit SteamOS only has 30,000 users, i expected it to be much higher than that.

Bazzit & Nobara is around 12k and CachyOS 8.4k...
 
Linux gaming would also include the Raspberry Pi which is something I have been meaning to set up for sometime but keep getting distracted.
 
Grim5 said:
game performance is a good chunk better than Windows

10-20% higher performance than Windows 11
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Eh that really depends on game and GPU, if you play a lot of DX12 games and use Nvidia for now expect a 20'ish % performance loss in those titles, RDNA4 cards also will see some perf. loss but thats mainly cause drivers aren't 100% yet once they are you should see equal or even faster in certain games, with the recent news AMD is going to get even better on Linux too in coming months, the perf. loss on Nvidia is down to VKD3D, Nvidia has a bug tracker finally going for it so hopefully it will be fixed in a few months time
 
This forum is slow enough as it is. SteamOS is just Arch Linux so treating it as its own thing seems misinformed.

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I'm surprised Reddit SteamOS only has 30,000 users, i expected it to be much higher than that.

Bazzit & Nobara is around 12k and CachyOS 8.4k...
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That's because for most people, SteamOS is just Steam Deck (even though it recently has been pushed to other devices now). But again, it's just an Arch-based distribution. Most questions inherent to SteamOS are going to be questions applicable to either Steam, or Arch.
 
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Any idea if the cheap subscription options work without a VPN?
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No. Sorry.

What I do is buy 12 months of Core and then upgrade it to Ultimate for an extra month. I think the 12 months or Core turns into 6 months of Ultimate with an extra month for the upgrade.

I haven't done it for a little while but that is what I did last time. You can get 12 months on CD Keys.
 
I just checked online, and it says you don't need an Xbox linked to the account for the cloud gaming service.

So, if they ever sort out the latency and load balancing, it could be another option for Linux users.
 
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